From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933452AbcGGB3g (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:29:36 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50102 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933176AbcGGBTn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:19:43 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby , "David S. Miller" , Tom Herbert , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 4.6 05/31] kcm: fix /proc memory leak Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 18:18:55 -0700 Message-Id: <20160707011557.740286994@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.0 In-Reply-To: <20160707011557.518104444@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160707011557.518104444@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jiri Slaby [ Upstream commit d19af0a76444fde629667ecb823c0ee28f9f67d8 ] Every open of /proc/net/kcm leaks 16 bytes of memory as is reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff88059c0e3458 (size 192): comm "cat", pid 1401, jiffies 4294935742 (age 310.720s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 28 45 71 96 05 88 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 (Eq............. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16e/0x230 [] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0 [] kcm_seq_open+0x0/0x30 [kcm] [] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0 [] __seq_open_private+0x2f/0xa0 [] seq_open_net+0x38/0xa0 ... It is caused by a missing free in the ->release path. So fix it by providing seq_release_net as the ->release method. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Fixes: cd6e111bf5 (kcm: Add statistics and proc interfaces) Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/kcm/kcmproc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/kcm/kcmproc.c +++ b/net/kcm/kcmproc.c @@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcm_ .open = kcm_seq_open, .read = seq_read, .llseek = seq_lseek, + .release = seq_release_net, }; static struct kcm_seq_muxinfo kcm_seq_muxinfo = {